When Henry William Primrose was born on 22 August 1846, in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Bouverie Francis Primrose, was 32 and his mother, Frederica Sophia Anson, was 31. He married Helen Mary MacMicking on 2 November 1888, in Wigtownshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Chelsea, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and London, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 17 June 1923, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76, and was buried in Putney, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Primrose (Fife). The placename is probably of Celtic origin, containing Pictish or Gaelic ros ‘wooded promontory’, with an uncertain first element.
English: nickname from the name of a flower, Old French primerole, altered in English and Scots to -rose.
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